Geotourism and Destination Conservation 
Innovative Projects Honor Natural and Cultural Heritage at a Local Level

The National Geographic Center for Sustainable Destinations is teaming up with community leaders, non-profits, and other local stakeholders worldwide to help them promote their sense of place and prompt destination conservation.  The end product is a Geotourism MapGuide and or a website that is largely designed [...]

NOTE: When I started writing this, this morning it was just snowing lightly. It looks like a full on winter storm outside right now, but I decided to post this anyway. Maybe this is just temporary…maybe!
You probably have noticed by now that the “Snowball Cam” has been replaced by a second Headquarters Cam. Snowball and [...]

 No More Glaciers in Glacier National Park by 2020?

Anne MinardNational Geographic News
March 2, 2009
It's an oft-repeated statistic that the glaciers at Montana's Glacier National Park will disappear by the year 2030.
But Daniel Fagre, a U.S. Geological Survey ecologist who works at Glacier, says the park's namesakes will be gone about ten years ahead of schedule, endangering the [...]